Improved apparatus for bottling liquids



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MATTHEWS, JR., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVE'D APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING lLIQUIDS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,019. dated March 6, 1866.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J oEN MATTHEWS, Jr., of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Bottling Liquids under Pressure; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference heilig had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification, which vis a vertical section of an apparatus for bottling soda-water constructed according to my invention.

This invention is designed more especially for bottling soda-water or other gaseous liquids in which process, as heretofore conducted, a large quantity of the carbonio-acid gas contained in the liquid has been lost by escaping from thc bottling apparatus into the atmosphere along with the air which is expelled from the bottle by the entering liquid.

My invention is designed to prevent this waste of gas; and it consists in so constructing the apparatus that the air which is expelled from the bottle by the entrance of the liquid, together with any quantity of gas tha-t may pass out therewith, are conducted into the reservoir or fountain'which contains the liquid to be bottled, the air from the bottle taking the place of the liquid drawn from the reservoir or fountain to ill the bottle, and maintaining a more, nearly constant pressure in and upon the liquid therein.

To enable those skilled in the art to understand the nature and operation of my invention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawing, which represents an ordinary soda-water fountain and bottling apparatus with the invention applied.

A represents the bottle, which is held up to the filling-head w in the usual manner, this part of the apparatus being of the ordinary character.

B is the fountain in which the soda-water or other liquid to be bottled is c`ontained, and which is connected with the lling-head x by a pipe, m, extending from its under side to the said head a2. This pipe m is provided with two stop-cocks, one of them, b, being situated near the reservoir, and the other, d, near the filli 11g-head Another pipe, n, bent in the manner clearly shown in the drawing, extends from the top of the fountain to the filling-head, where it terminates opposite the endfof the pipe m. This pipe n also has two stop-cocks, which, like those of the pipe m, are situated, one,

h, near the reservoir, and the other, 7c, near the filling-head w. Above the iilling-head is a small stationary cylinder, s, provided' with a plunger, l, and also holding the cork r in the ordinary way. By pushing the plunger downward the corkr is forced into the bottle, when the process of iilling is completed.

The operation is as follows: The bottle A being in the position shown in the drawing, with its mouth in communication with the filling-head m, the stop-cocks of the two pipes m and n are turned, so as to open communication with the reservoir throughout the entire length of the said pipes. By preference this is done by lirst opening' or turning the cocks h k, and afterward the cocks b d. On this the liquid passes, by gravitation, through the filling-head .fr into the bottle. The air and gas expelled from the bottle passes through the pipe n into the fbuntain above the liquid contained therein, thus taking the place of the liquid that has entered the bottle. By this means the gas is entirely prevented fromlescaping from the apparatus; and inasmuchas the pressure upon the liquid asl itpasses into the bottle is the same as upon that in the fountain, the liquid does not foam in-pass;

ing into the bottle, and uniformity inthe amount ofgas contained in the liquid furnished tothe different bottles is maintained. When the bottle is full the cork r is forced \into its mouth bv pushing the plunger Z downwadf,`

the stopcocks d k having been previously turned in such manner as to shut off communication through the pipes mand n. The bottle is then removed and another put in its place, and the process of iilling, as hereinbefore set forth, is repeated.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The method herein described of bottling liquids under pressure, by which constant and uniform pressure is maintained upon the liquid, as well when passing into the bottle as when in the fountain, and by which the escape of gas during the process of bottling is prevented, all substantially as herein. set forth.

2. The pipe n, applied and arranged with reference to the fountain B, pipe m, and filling-head m, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

' JOHN MATTHEWS, JR.

Witnesses:

A. LE CLERC, J. W. CooMBs. 

